ESPN announced Wednesday a total of 69 weekday telecasts for the 2013 college football season, including 18 games involving the Mid-American Conference. The MAC, which has a roughly $1 million per year contract with ESPN that runs through the 2016-17 season, has grown into a staple of mid-week college football in recent years.

The University of Massachusetts football team is not currently slated for any of the weekday broadcasts, but could play its way into one of the yet to be determined match-ups later in the season. UMass does, however, have four Saturday games scheduled to air on television: Aug. 31 at Wisconsin (Big Ten Network), Sept. 7 vs. Maine (ESPN3), Oct. 19 at Buffalo (Time Warner Cable) and Nov. 2 vs. Northern Illinois (ESPN3).

Here are the MAC games scheduled to air on the ESPN family of networks:

Thursday, Aug. 29Liberty at Kent State - 6 p.m. on ESPN3Tulsa at Bowling Green - 7 p.m. on ESPNUIllinois State at Ball State - 7 p.m. on ESPN3Akron at Central Florida - 7 p.m. on ESPN3